Rebuttal to criticisms of our blog for exposing the ugly side of China and embarrassing the motherland. English translation of an excerpt of her address to her critics, most likely the “fenqing” or nationalist youth, courtesy of Damien Ma at The Atlantic:

In fact, many Chinese gripe and complain about the absurdity of the government’s policies and its corruption. Yet whenever they’re in front of foreigners, they blow out their cheeks to make themselves look fatter — always compelled to defend and speak positively of the government. When foreigners ask, “Your government has a lot of corruption, and the people have restricted freedoms, right?” They reply, “Nonsense! We live very freely and have many freedoms.” When foreigners attempt to sympathize, “You can’t get on a lot of websites because they’re blocked, right?” They reply, “It doesn’t matter, we don’t really care to visit those websites anyway!” Isn’t this a classic case of Stockholm Syndrome? They have got so used to the abuses, no?…